• Amilo159@lemmy.world
      321·
      11 months ago

      I would nominate the Gtx1080 (actually the 1060 6gb too) as the best of the best GPU ever made.

      The price/performance ratio at their launch was insane and even 7 years later, they’re still valid options for budget gamers.

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
          71·
          11 months ago

          My 4S became unusable after the … iOS 6? 7? update; nothing would remain running in the background and apps took several seconds to start.

          Switched to Android and never looked back.

          Edit: looked up a few dates and I think it must have been iOS 8.

          • mommykink@lemmy.world
            22·
            11 months ago

            Oh yeah, I’m not saying the 4S is a good phone nowadays, but I still consider it the best phone of all time when you consider when it came out, what its competitors were, etc. Similar to the Nvidia 1080 GPU.

            • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
              4·
              11 months ago

              What I’m saying is that Apple made sure to turn it into a bad phone three years after its release, while the 1080 is still a decent GPU several years later.

    • dan@upvote.au
      14·
      11 months ago

      A year or two ago, I needed a newer graphics card because my R9 390 couldn’t handle the resolution of my new ultrawide monitor. This was when prices were crazy, everything was out of stock, and second-hand cards were selling for higher than the retail prices of brand new cards.

      I got a 1080Ti for free from someone at my workplace because they hadn’t used it for a while and would have felt bad selling it while prices were ridiculously high. He didn’t want to take advantage of anyone. Good guy.

      To pay it forward, when I upgraded my PC I gave away all the old parts (PSU, motherboard, RAM, CPU) for free. I posted about it, waited a day or two, and picked someone randomly for each item.

    • Retrograde@lemmy.world
      113·
      11 months ago

      Be an absolute irresponsible moron and finance one like I did :) who cares about debt when you have FRAMES am I right?.. right…?

    • sharun@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      Bought a laptop with a 1050ti back in 2018, still use it to this day. Though I don’t game on it as much as I used to. I’ve upgraded everything else in it that I could

  • passepartout@feddit.de
    171·
    11 months ago

    I sold my old parts on ebay when i built a new rig. Got about 100€ in total and paid 2000€ for the new one :|

  • koorool@feddit.de
    14·
    11 months ago

    I read it and was trying to understand why Death suddenly speaks German on 3rd panel xD

  • JATtho@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    11 months ago

    Radeon RX 580 until the VRAM dies to the idle @50°C temps or the support is removed from the kernel…

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      I bought an RX480 6 years ago and while it probably can’t run the most modern games, it’s still a trusty work horse for the ones I still play.

      At one point I realised that my games have been crashing with BSOD for a year because the cooling paste melted and spread all around the chip. Fixed it, started working with no issues.

      Its right fan was so loud that I thought it was shredding some plastic part. I replaced it, was fine for a week, it’s loud as hell again. But it’s still working like nothing happened.

      • JATtho@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’m considering to replace the TIM (repasting) + thermal pads at some point… The card is now ~5 years old, and if the paste goes bad that would be end of it. The dust that all boards accumulate overtime is also a risk factor of how long components last.